that this building was last occupied by a neighborhood serving retail use, so a little bit on that, the sausage factory was opened to much fanfare on september 7, 1948. this is a historic card announcing its opening, the factory, many of you may know it is on green street street, it's a beautiful 1940's building. please refer to the overhead, thank you for the original announcing the original opening in 1948. >> i can't see it. >> okay. >> i will just -- while i'm waiting for that image, i'll just continue my presentation.

okay, i'll stop my presentation. >> [inaudible]. >> thanks. >> thank you. thanks. some important history because this is a story about history, the born december to*e sausage factory was the born gus to*e market which was established in 1920 by *f by the casisa family on a 3 thousand dollar bank loan, the family started manufacturing sausage in their storage just around the corner and they built this factory in 1948. if you look to the overhead, that's a picture of the factory, in an article in the journal of "meat" december, 1948, celebrating the opening specifically references the layout of the building and

specifically references the main floor noting that at the front of the building, near the entry way, there was a men's locker room that services the rest of the factory next to that is the inspector's office and beyond that the actual where the meat is made. nowhere in the plans nor in any of the history or any of the facts -- we went back and read newspaper articles and went and looked at building permit plans, we didn't know there was any indication that there was an ancillary retail space on the site. as the za letter speaks about, the factory was operating illegally, it needed to replan its floor area, that never happened to our knowledge and i want to point out that in 1979, a permit was filed if you can look to the overhead, a permit was filed to remodel the frontbacker front area of the

store of the factory into a store and you can see here, i'm putting my finger on it, that little room that's green street here, that room right there at the entrance still says locker room and the permit although it was filed to convert the locker room to a store was never acted on and the permit was cancelled, we see a history of this, so yes, there were permit records that suggest there was a "retail use" here but none of the factual evidence supports it, so at the end of the day, we're left with the situation where factually, it appears that this building, this sausage factory was never used as a retail store, certainly not a neighborhood serving retail store, why are we interested in this, the interest is build inc., the master tenant is looking to bring back sausage making and a salumaria to the site, they want to pair that with a full

service restaurant, full service restaurant is what's going to underwright the cost, we are excited about revitalizing this building, brings it back to its original historic use admittedly with a full service restaurant and that would include a bar of course and because of this one finding in this letter, we're concerned that we won't have the right to go for a conditional use to seek ultimately approval of a full service restaurant with sausage making and a saluma raoe ya on the site, the site was never used as a market and retail site, if it's interpreted to be last occupied as such use, we will never be able to seek a conditional use approval for the restaurant. thank you. >> thank you. >> okay, thank you.

is there a representative here for the determination holder? if you would like to speak, you have 7 minutes as well. >> my name is marsha garland and i'm the one who sought the letter of determination and i don't know what to say, i have a very amicable relationship with the master leaseholder and i did tell the sublease holder that i was -- who is here, san teen noe derose who is also a real estate broker that i was looking for this letter of determination, and i have no argument with it at all. i was surprised about the restaurant interest particularly because i'm fully aware that in north beach, it's virtually impossible to get a liquor license but you have to go with a restaurant. so, you know, i just came tonight to observe really.

i have no real serious input other than historical. >> thank you. and is there anyone here representing the subject property owner who would like to speak? >> the casisa family is not present, but as the master tenant, they've authorized us to speak on their behalf. >> just so that i'm clear, ms. garland, you are taking the same position as the appellant here? >> i'm not -- no, i'm really -- i disht's very complicated. they represent the property owner, okay. the man died a year ago, the wife is very elderly. i have never met them and i occupy the top floor where i

have my office and a roof garden, and that's nothing -- and i pay my rent to this man who is the real estate broker. i have no objection to them appealing it whatsoever, i feel that's perfectly within their right. i represent -- at that time, i was representing a client who was interested in pulling a distillery in there for liquor, and i'm not currently on their payroll. i thought it would be a very good use for that building and since it is light industrial, and i got the letter of determination from scott sanchez, the zoning administrator, indicating that it could be doable with a certain way of handling it, so then i heard about this appeal and i was surprised. >> okay, so you have no objection to the appeal so you're fine with whatever -- if

that appeal were to be granted? okay, i just wanted to be sure. >> yeah. >> mr. sanchez? >> thank you, and good evening, president woningsinger, members of the board, planning department.

>> no permits for the use. otherwise there is really no building permits on the subject property. there was a letter of determination for a liquor store and will take up some time to wrap